Additional arguments to the URL request can be used to select information from the view, and provide limit, sorting and other options.

To output only ten items:

GET http://[localhost]:8092/[bucket-name]/_design/[ddoc-name]/_view/[view-name]?limit=10

The formatting of the URL follows the HTTP specification.
The first argument is separated from the base URL using a question mark ( ? ).
Additional arguments are separated using an ampersand ( & ).
Special characters are quoted or escaped according to the HTTP standard rules.

Example

Curl request example:

In the following example, an empty development view is created with a view name, johnView, and a design document name, _design/dev_john in the bucket, test2.